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"One CPU one vote" was never a promise about hardware. It described why a vote has to cost something real, so that a thousand fake identities cannot outvote an honest ledger. Hash rate broke the hardware assumption and left the principle standing: the vote still costs energy, it just costs it in silicon now. That is what makes a block party a decent ritual, every hash is a lottery ticket somebody already paid for.

I think you misunderstood what I am saying here. I didn't say one CPU one vote was a hardware promise, but what I am pointing are the decentralisation mechanics at play. According to the white paper mining nodes and validator nodes were never discussed as being separate but as being one, as a pathway to keeping the network decentralized. So all I am saying in keeping with the spirit of decentralization of mining, the Blockparty helps to keep mining accessible

Fair on one point: section 5 walks through a single node role and never names a separate validator class. But section 8 already split them for you: "It is possible to verify payments without running a full network node." The paper accepted that most participants would carry headers and trust the longest chain rather than validate it themselves. That is the separation you say was never there, just not given a label. Where I would push harder is the word accessible. The person hashing at a party is not signing the block, the pool is. Three pools signed 67 percent of the last 130 blocks (mempool.space, 24h reading this morning): Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool. A thousand people hashing on one afternoon do not move that number by a single block. It makes mining tangible, which is worth something real, but tangible is not distributed. So I would keep both claims apart. A block party keeps mining visible and keeps the lottery ticket in people's hands, and the vote still costs energy, that part survived the whitepaper and the ASICs both. Whether that energy lands in one pool or in many is the question the party does not answer.